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Work with AFH in Seagate F3 Utility
Implementation of the tool in the utility was delayed for a long time because work with the heating parameters of the read-write head required extreme caution. An incorrect choice of tactics for work with a damaged drive will lead to … Continue reading
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Western Digital SMR. Formatted Drive Solution.
Modern SMR drives are very sensitive due to a new shingled recording technology. The writing density becomes higher, and also, the internal processes in the drive firmware almost never stop. Even when the drive is idle, bands are rewritten to optimize … Continue reading
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A brick named Rosewood
Disclaimer: the article is specially written in an easy form to simplify the perception of the information presented; despite this, the material should be taken as seriously as possible. Currently, we receive a lot of modern SMR drives for data … Continue reading
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PC-3000 HDD. Western Digital 4F ROM Module recovery mode
Hello Friends! All of you already know that the PC-3000 can recover ROM from old Western Digital Marvell drives with External (in separate chip) and Internal (in MCU) ROM. However, it was a problem to recover ROM from newer families, … Continue reading
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PC-3000. Best PC configuration for ACE Lab products in 2024
Recently, users have been asking about the most comfortable hardware configuration for using PC-3000 Flash, PC-3000 Express or PC-3000 UDMA-E. A lot of engineers are still working on computers with Core i5 2400 and 4GB of RAM, but this configuration is outdated … Continue reading
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Tagged CPU, Express, Flash, Hardware, PC configuration, Portable, RAID, UDMA-E
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PC-3000 HDD. How to fix the Second Level Translator (T2) in the PC-3000 7.2 Software Version
Hello Friends! As you know, the Second Level Translator (T2) is a very critical FW part which affects HDD normal work and data access. Previously, if the T2 was damaged, we had to use RAW recovery in PBA mode in order … Continue reading
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How to use PC-3000 Portable III incorrectly and lose your warranty
The ports of PC-3000 Portable III (Port 0, 1, 2) function using high-speed PCIe-1, 2 and SATA-1, 2, 3 protocols thus providing for the data transfer rates up to 5 and 6 Gbit/s respectively, i.e. effectively the data transfer rate … Continue reading
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PC-3000 SAS. List of supported hard drives
PC-3000 SAS can work with SAS and SCSI drives (requires an additional third-party SCSI adapter). PC-3000 Portable III with SAS Adapter and Utilities is able to work only with native SAS drives and does not support … Continue reading
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PC-3000 for HDD. How to unlock SED on WD SMR drives without a special board
Hello dear friends, In June 2022, we released a new PC-3000 software version 7.1.x, and one of the main features in this update is the SED unlocking option for new WD SMR families. It means that now you don’t need to … Continue reading
PC-3000 HDD. How to Block Writing in Service Area in Seagate F3
Modern Seagate drives are very complex, and their hardware becomes more and more sensitive. If heads have issues, they can damage some critical objects in the Service Area during the internal FW processes. It may be a reason for data … Continue reading
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